Attempts Quotes
526 quotes by 450 authors
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Greatness is not born from one success. Greatness is born from persevering through the countless failed attempts that preceded.
— Simon Sinek
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There are few persons who have not, at some period of their lives, amused themselves in retracing the steps by which particular conclusions of their…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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Our search for certainty rests in our attempts at understanding the history of all individual selves and all civilizations. Beyond that, there is only awe.
— Julian Jaynes
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Our attempts to reshape others may produce change, but the change is distortion rather than transformation.
— David Keirsey
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Even our smallest attempts are not in vain. We know that nothing is lost.
— Swami Vivekananda
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My doodles and sketches are not the work of an academic engineer. They represent many years of design study in attempts to produce the best…
— Alec Issigonis
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There was an intervention of the foreign states in the Russian Far East, Archangel of the West border of Russia. The foreign troops were participating…
— Vladimir Semichastny
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We find the light only after total defeat of our attempts to deceive and outwit it.
— Vernon Howard
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Museums, museums, object-lessons rigged out to illustrate the unsound theories of archaeologists, crazy attempts to co-ordinate and get into a fixed order that which has…
— D. H. Lawrence
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In practice, you realise that most attempts to feed your baby in a public space will be met with subtle but palpable resistance. Older chaps…
— Rowan Pelling
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Whenever science attempts to legitimate itself, it is no longer scientific but narrative, appealing to an orienting myth that is not susceptible to scientific legitimation.
— James K. A. Smith
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You may honestly feel grateful that homeopathy survived the attempts of the allopaths (orthodoxy) to destroy it.
— Mark Twain
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In Japan itself there have all along been attempts by some to obliterate the article about renunciation of war from the Constitution and for this…
— Kenzaburo Oe
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Any attempts by any government to change Community legislation to its own wishes are doomed to failure following the extension of policy areas now subject…
— Margaret Thatcher
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I strongly reject threats by any member state to destroy another or outrageous attempts to deny historical facts such as the Holocaust.
— Ban Ki-moon
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As we strive to better understand how Jesus sees us and contemplate our own attempts to live as the Redeemer would have us live, let…
— Cecil O. Samuelson
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The world is full of judgment-days, and into every assembly that a man enters, in every action he attempts, he is gauged and stamped.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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RIGHTEOUSNESS, n. A sturdy virtue that was once found among the Pantidoodles inhabiting the lower part of the peninsula of Oque. Some feeble attempts were…
— Ambrose Bierce
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The problem is, is that President Bush and the Republican leadership in the Congress have resisted attempts to increase dramatically our fuel economy standards over…
— Ed Markey
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For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.
— Mary Augusta Ward
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